ASKAP update for July – by Aidan Hotan
July 26, 2021
The ASKAP Update for July includes reports on the POSSUM team’s efforts to verify ASKAP’s off-axis polarisation leakage calibration method, the first images from the RACS mid-band survey and other […]
Moon-landing anniversary
July 23, 2021
This week marks the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing! The Visitor Centre exhibition at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) has a 3.8 billion year old […]
Moon-landing anniversary
July 22, 2021
This week marks the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing! Originally located at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station and now at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) […]
ATNF Colloquium – A High-Speed All-Sky Monitor for FRBs and Technosignatures
July 21, 2021
Danny Price (ICRAR-Curtin) Abstract: Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are one of the most intriguing transient phenomena discovered in the recent years, and recently observed down to 100-MHz frequencies. I will […]
Zooming in on Centaurus A – by Janssen et al.
July 20, 2021
An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 , has now […]
The edge-on Fourcade-Figueroa galaxy – by Saponara et al.
July 19, 2021
Studies of the stellar and HI (neutral hydrogen) gas kinematics in dwarf and Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies are essential for deriving constraints on their dark matter distribution. Saponara et […]
ASKAP by numbers – by Keith Bannister
July 16, 2021
As reported in yesterday’s ADAP , Keith Bannister gave a presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia describing the work recognised in the award of […]
The ASA’s Anne Green Prize
July 15, 2021
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) awards a number of prizes each year. This year, the Anne Green Prize, recognising a significant advance or accomplishment by a mid-career scientist, was […]
Proto-planets and PLATYPUS – by Norfolk et al.
July 14, 2021
Planets form from the material in molecular clouds left over from the formation of stars. Debris discs are the final stage of protoplanetary disc evolution. The majority of primordial gas […]
New issue of SKAO magazine, Contact
July 13, 2021
A new issue of the SKAO magazine has just been released, celebrating the start of construction activities for the SKA telescopes! In addition to a number of recent developments for […]
CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA) grows past 1 Petabyte – by Minh Huynh
July 12, 2021
Recently the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA) passed the 1 petabyte (1 PB = one million gigabytes) mark. This means that CASDA now holds more than 1 PB of […]
NAIDOC week
July 9, 2021
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and […]
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